Summary:
Currently, the system for mapping JS event handlers to blocks is quite clean on the JS side, but is clunky on the native side. The event property is passed as a boolean, which can then be checked by the native side, and if true, the native side is supposed to send an event via the event dispatcher.
This diff adds the facility to declare the property as a block instead. This means that the event side can simply call the block, and it will automatically send the event. Because the blocks for bubbling and direct events are named differently, we can also use this to generate the event registration data and get rid of the arrays of event names.
The name of the event is inferred from the property name, which means that the property for an event called "load" must be called `onLoad` or the mapping won't work. This can be optionally remapped to a different property name on the view itself if necessary, e.g.
RCT_REMAP_VIEW_PROPERTY(onLoad, loadEventBlock, RCTDirectEventBlock)
If you don't want to use this mechanism then for now it is still possible to declare the property as a BOOL instead and use the old mechanism (this approach is now deprecated however, and may eventually be removed altogether).
Summary:
RCTCache had really bad insertion performance when the cache was full due to having to LRU-sort the entries. This was making color
animations very slow.
I've fixed this in two ways:
1) by removing the sort and doing a linear search to remove old entries, which changes insertion perf to O(n) in the worst case instead of O(n log n) or even (n2).
2) by reducing the size of the color cache to 128 from 1024, which should be fine for normal use, without penalising animation performance.
Separately, border colors were not being retained, which caused crashes when the color cache was cleared. I've fixed that by retaining the border colors inside RCTView.
Nick Lockwood
Georgiy Kassabli
Alex Akers
Tadeu Zagallo